SolarWinds product EVP Christoph Pfister says, “Customers are sampling SDN in their dev-test environments, but with the maturation of the technology, we’re seeing wider use by customers within their production environments.

“Our users need comprehensive visibility into both the physical and logical networks. These latest updates are a direct reflection of our continued commitment to our user community and to their businesses, all priced to be within reach for most companies and service providers.”

Network Configuration Manager (NCM) 7.9 – Introduces the ability to define and apply multi-device baselines or config snippets to any network node, and is designed to enhance the ability to quickly identify configuration drift and adhere to corporate configuration standards.

NetFlow Traffic Analyzer (NTA) 4.5 – Expanded alerting can help users act quickly if application traffic suddenly increases or decreases, as well as help speed resolution if a device stops sending flow data.

IP Address Manager (IPAM) 4.8 – Adds support for Infoblox to help users to monitor DHCP and DNS services in a centralised dashboard.

The Orion Platform is a modular and scalable architecture delivering network, infrastructure, application monitoring and management capabilities across on-premises, hosted, and public cloud environments.

The common framework combines a web-based dashboard, centralised user management, unified alerting and reporting, and consolidated metrics, aiming to enhance collaboration between teams.